Monday, 15 August 2016

Barangaroo, water pumping station

This former water pumping station is located near the Towns Place entrance of Barangaroo Reserve, in the inner city suburb of Barangaroo. This sewage pumping station was decommissioned during the building of the headland park. The building was moved 100 metres, restored and redeveloped as a toilet block.

That's an interesting old building. We don't see much civil-mechanical-utilities architecture like this in British Columbia, but it is often seen in Ontario, which has older settlement. I was always surprised to find that the perfect little Georgian style house was in fact some sort of sub-station.